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CDC advises restaurants to check their eggs

Any sold by Wisconsin-based Milo's Poultry Farms should be discarded because of possible salmonella contamination, the agency said. It reported Monday that 65 people have been sickened to date.

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Congress is presented with a new plan for keeping food safe

Government Watch: Two prominent lawmakers have called for reworking the federal government's hodgepodge of a system for safeguarding the nation's food supply.

Cucumbers have been connected to two of the three contaminations. Still, the outbreaks could be separate, according to health officials.

The produce likely never made it to restaurants or supermarkets, according to the FDA, because supplies were halted at the distributor and wholesaler stages of the supply chain.

The agency's food safety arm has been alerted that ground beef products possibly contaminated with E. coli have made it to market.

Authorities say the contamination has spread to the nation's largest egg producer and a 12th dairy herd, but the impact on prices has yet to be seen.

A beta version of the $5 food-safety training program needs to get rid of some bugs, says an expert on the topic. But its producers say the issue is politics, not a dispute over best practices.

The agency is warning restaurants to discard the shellfish if it was supplied during the last 17 days by a Canadian harvester, Future Seafoods.

If the shellfish was harvested at a certain time last month in the Groton, Conn., area, it could be contaminated, the agency warned.

Three other patrons of a Frugals fast-food restaurant in Tacoma were hospitalized but survived, the state said. The listeria was found in ice cream machines.

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